THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. MONDAY, JULY 18, 1910. A UNION OF DOMINIONS.
It is eight years ago Eince the peace was signed which concluded the Boer War, and the Union of South Africa brings into existence a new nation among the British nations, a new Dominion in the British Empire. The next task that remait s is the union of sill the self-governing British Dominions in an enduring constitutional compact which shall preserve the full internal autonomy of each, aid yet secure unity of extcrra! policy and efficiency in defence for the whole. There are great possibilities of development in the new Dcminion, and vre in New Zetland naturally look in the direction of the mining industry iur fu ure de-
velopments in that country. wj<»'"f> j is for the present, and will be for a good many years to come, the mainspring of South African prosperity. The labour difficulty will hamper its expansion, and to that difficulty there can be no final solution in the near .'uture. The future prugress of thi3 rew Dominion lieg in immigration, in | establishing a white population in place of black. It is the agricultural development of South Africa that will ultimately establish its permanent prosperity. We do not realise what South Africa is capable of in this direction. Lord Milner created agricultural departments there with the direct object of finding out what South Africa could really do. This tfork has been followed up wholeheartedly by leaders of the country, and the result is strikingly
noticeable. Stock diseases and loc- « usts have been kept in check with j an effectiveness undiearat of in old ; days. New and better blood has been l introduced into the flecks and herds of the country. New grasses have been introduced, and a far larger area is now under cultivation. A new spirit of enterprise and confidence, of a readiness to make experiments, and be guided by scientific advice, is beginning to permeate the farmers of South Africa. Farming there today offers to a man with some capital and reasonable enterprise and abiliiy, a gocd field for profitable employment. Then—as "A New Zealander in Argentine" remarked in a letter we published last week, there is the climate, the glorious sunny climate of the veldt is alone worth a good deal in reckoning the pleas- , ures of life.'labour is cheap and re- J liable, and land is to be had at small cost,
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10043, 18 July 1910, Page 4
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404THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. MONDAY, JULY 18, 1910. A UNION OF DOMINIONS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10043, 18 July 1910, Page 4
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